Be able to integrate their ideas with others using summary, paraphrase, quotation, analysis, and synthesis of relevant sources.
In paper 2, I used quite a few quote sandwiches to introduce what evidence I am using and then backed it up with my own thinking and rationale. The quote sandwich I chose to highlight in paper two was:
Most people in society today do not like to point out disabilities in fear of being rude or offensive. However, the offensive part is still happening just in a more concealed way. The article “We’re 20 Percent of America, and We’re Still Invisible” explains, “At screenings of the Netflix documentary “Crip Camp,” at Sundance, audience members often asked why they had never been told the story of Camp Jened for young people with disabilities in the 1960s, and of the activism many of the campers pursued in the disability rights movement as adults. One theory is this: They didn’t want to know.” (Heumann and Wodatch). People in society do not want to recognize disabilities because they do not seem to care about it unless it affects them directly.
This quote introduces a key concept about how people treat others that have disability in society today and why they might be like that. The quote contradicts what I explained about how people think they are acting around them, but the quote explains differently about how people with disabilities don’t need to be treated any differently than others and this mainly happens because most people don’t take the time to actually understand their disabilities and what they are still capable of. Most of the time they don’t want to be treated differently just because of the label that they have. My thinking at the end justifies that most of the time when someone has something like a disability, no one really cares to either get to know them or understand their situation so they just ignore it.
Before this semester of english, I usually never introduced quotes as much as I do now. Most of the time I would just throw quotes in my papers after just explaining a previous quote so there was no lead up or introduction of what I was going to be talking about next. I also had a hard time connecting my quotes to my thinking in papers. I knew what points I was trying to prove, but the evidence that I chose was too difficult for me to connect them all together. Now I tend to look for evidence from different sources that connect to my main thesis and all of the other evidence that I incorporate into my papers. That way it makes it much easier for me to think critically about my evidence and the overall message of my paper.
